![]() ![]() Shift your online banking to the bank’s browser based websites, and you should find it working better for you. Tried it once years ago and it was a real kludge. Seriously, I can’t imagine relying on Intuit to pipeline my transactions through a bank. (Some banks print tiny copies on statements, one doesn’t). At present, I’m using iBank to collect and categorize the downloads, then entering into my historical Qkn files just the summaries.Įach of the banks (but not the brokers) I’m using also provide links to actually view deposit tickets and checks paid. ![]() Since during the time Quicken seemed destined for the scrap heap I bought iBank, I’ve found that iBank does a superb job of importing and categorizing the OFX files all my institutions offer. On the back end, I download transactions in CSV format to Excel. It is a (fairly) simply matter to enter your payee and their address, then direct the bank to write the check. I have found the banks’ own website “online bill pay” work great. Including those I manage at work, I have eight online BANK accounts at four banks, and multiple online broker accounts. Instead, I’ll hunt down a suitable replacement and migrate my data elsewhere. That being said, I’m not interested in continuing working around Intuit’s lack of Mac support. Perhaps Intuit plans to restore feature parity between “Quicken Essentials” and real Quicken at some point in the future, but it’s looking more and more like Mac Quicken users will have to choose between upgrading their system software and continuing to use Quicken.Īnd before you suggest it… Yes, I also realize that I could buy the Windows version and run it on my Mac via Parallels, VMware Fusion, or the like. It’s now little more than a check register and budget tracker – and pretty much everyone hates it.ĭon’t believe me? Check out the reviews at Amazon, where it’s averaging somewhere around 1.5 stars. ![]() Gone are many many of the “advanced” features that I depend on, like any sort of detailed investment tracking. Unfortunately, Intuit hasn’t bothered to do this.Īnd yes, I realize that Intuit released Quicken Essentials for Mac about a year ago, but that is an entirely different program that is just a shadow of the full-blown Quicken. After all, they began transitioning over to Intel chips way back at the beginning of 2006, which means that software developers have had five years to update their software to run on the new hardware. I really can’t say that I blame Apple for making this move. ![]()
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